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Solar panels installed in wild brush land near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa.

Environment

What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the creation of living solar panels transformed their impact on the world

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Technology

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

Analysis

Chemistry

Sun-powered device extracts lithium without wrecking the environment

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Environment

Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run

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Space

There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer solar system

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Space

Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old

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TOPSHOT - This photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows solar panels among Sichuan pepper field in Bijie, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Bill McKibben makes a powerful pitch for solar in optimistic new book

Culture

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

Space

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

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Space

A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star

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Earth

Deep-living microbes could 'eat' energy generated by earthquakes

When rocks fracture in underground faults, they generate a variety of chemical compounds that could provide more energy sources for microbes in Earth’s depths

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Technology

Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

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Environment

Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

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Technology

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

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Video

Look inside the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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